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August 2009 
What separates you from others?
Posted on Apr 20th, 2008
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shivermetimbers01
shivermetimbers01
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 20, 2008:
I really can't figure out what separates me from others. To me, I'm just normal. If I could locate the root of my eccentricity, maybe I could mask it when I want to fit in. At work one day, a particularly malicious co-worker told me that if I realized how weird I was I would probably jump off a bridge. Luckily, it doesn't bother me that much. However, on those rare occasions when I would like to feel a sense of belonging, I often get depressed because I can't assimilate into the mainstream crowd.
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Yikes! Speaking from home base (i.e., the weirdite camp), I know how unsettled main-streamers get with the fringe-dwellers (and, I'm not even saying that you're from my part of the fringe).
I don't find the folks that I fit in with, they always find me. Sometimes, I don't even know that they've assessed me and found me to be, if I may quote cult Landrew, “part of the body.”
Because I've spent my whole life different, I've had lots of time (trial & error) to figure out the basics of fitting in so peeps aren't scared. I make errors, of course, and realize it only after seeing people's eyes like saucers. Now, I let the mainstreamers create the level of the interaction and follow their lead.
~ the scribe